unmentionable

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adjective

Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveunmentionable (comparative more unmentionable, superlative most unmentionable)

comparative more unmentionable · superlative most unmentionable

  1. Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.

    Antonyms: mentionable

noununmentionable (plural unmentionables)

plural unmentionables

  1. Something not to be discussed in polite society.

    I'm a lesbian female, 20 years old and my most outstanding features are my pierced unmentionable and my eyes.

    1983 December 10, Mary F. Miller, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 19
    2 more examples

    He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.

    1995, Virginia Schroeder Burnham, William H. Hampton, Since Time Began, page 43

    Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.

    2014, Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 100

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveToo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveunsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation

nouna garment worn under other garments

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishmentionable
  9. Englishunmentionable

From un- + mentionable.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Catalan inconfessable, innomenable
  • inconfessabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
  • innomenabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Esperanto nemenciebla
  • nemencieblatoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Finnish sopimaton mainita
  • sopimaton mainitatoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
French inavouable
  • inavouabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Norwegian unevnelig
  • unevneligtoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Polish niecenzuralny, nieparlamentarny
  • niecenzuralnytoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
  • nieparlamentarnytoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Portuguese inconfessável
  • inconfessáveltoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
Spanish inconfesable
  • inconfesabletoo embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
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Chicago

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